Six years ago, Trevor Horn’s wife was accidentally shot in the neck by their son. The legendary music producer talks for the first time about the tragedy

We are in Sarm Studios, west London, a warren of rooms that have seen musical
history. There are faded blue sofas, a cramped 1970s kitchen, mixing desks;
discs and photos from the glory years on the walls. Bob Marley recorded
there in the 1970s. Do They Know It’s Christmas? was produced here. In the
early 1980s Trevor Horn and his wife, Jill Sinclair, bought the studios and
made it a cathedral of hits, with Horn producing some of the biggest names
of the decade: ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCartney, Robbie
Williams, Tom Jones, Grace Jones, Seal, Tina Turner, the Pet Shop Boys,
Simple Minds.

His production defined the sound of the 1980s and early ’90s: shimmering
synthesisers and the just-invented art of sampling. He created a lush sonic
duvet that wrapped around you. Jill, his wife, was a tall, striking,
strident woman, a powerhouse who called the shots.